Dmitry, a schoolteacher stripped of everything — played by John DiMino(All images by Ashley Garrett via LuredThePlay.com)

If you are a member of the LGBTQ community, chances are you've heard of the unimaginable persecution of gay men in Russia in recent years. Most shockingly, several years ago, neo-Nazi groups began attracting men with promises of sex via hookup apps, only to brutalize them on video to destroy their lives and teach them the lesson that homosexuality is a diabolical western plague.

In Frank J. Avella's revelatory play Lured, playing now through November 25 at Theater for the New City (155 First Ave., NYC), this grotesque violation of humanity is dramatized in an ingenius way that contextualizes the trend while never flinching from portraying the depravity.

Days before the all-important midterms, a clumsy attempt has been made to smear Robert Mueller using easily discredited claims of sexual impropriety.

The man presumed to be behind the scam — which has been referred to the FBI for investigation — apparently used his mommy's private number as the office number of a sham business he set up as part of the scheme.

Lying about sexual abuse ... see, the Republicans who support Trump, and Trump himself, always accuse the left of things they themselves actually will do or have done. They brayed that Christine Blasey Ford was paid to lie about her sexual abuse, and here Jacob Wohl, a 20-year-old Trumpster, is allegedly involved in just that.